Re: photocopiers

[rogersc@lhl.lib.mo.us (Cynthia J. Rogers)]

This reply is quite later than the original discussion but thought it may be
of interest.
 Minolta loaned to us a PS 3000 machine to try in the library.  As another
responder mentioned, it is touchy and takes training and practice to use but
is well worth it.  We would love to have purchased it  for use with the rare
book collection alone, but the price required wider use in the library.  The
document services staff used and evaluated the machine and found it very
useful for some purposes but somewhat slower than current practices.  In
order to justify its use for document services, the Minolta would require
certain developments which are being planned by the company but are not yet
within the capability of the machine.


>As a follow-up to Henry Raine's inquiry about the Sharp Binder Minder, I
>wonder if anyone out there is using the Minolta PS 3000 Publication Scanner
>(formerly marketed under a different model no. at a much higher price; the
>current version is around $16,000 but must be hooked up to a PC and a laser
>printer).  This machine is capable of scanning books or documents face-up
>and produces digital files which may be stored or printed out.  It
>supposedly has the ability to compensate for curvature of text in the
>gutter margin.
>
>Posts to the list, please, since there won't be many.
>
>Rich Oram
>
>Richard W. Oram
>Librarian, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
>University of Texas at Austin
>PO Drawer 7219
>Austin, TX 78713-7219
>(512) 471-9119   fax (512) 471-2899  roram@mail.utexas.edu 
>
>
>
Cynthia J. Rogers - History of Science
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